Thing ethnography: doing design research with non-humans

E. Giaccardi; N. Cila; C. Speed; M. Caldwell

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901905

Thing ethnography: doing design research with non-humans

E. Giaccardi, N. Cila, C. Speed, M. Caldwell

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Drawing from a study of everyday home practices from a material objects' perspective, this paper examines the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology. In doing so, the paper challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Editors	SIGCHI, Association for Computing Machinery
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	377-387
Number of pages	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Thing ethnography: doing design research with non-humans. / Giaccardi, E.; Cila, N.; Speed, C. et al.
DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems . ed. / SIGCHI; Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 377-387.

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